Cultural Horizons of India
author: Musashi Tachikawa
edition: 1990, International Academy of Indian Culture and Aditya Prakashan
pages: 2743
Topic: History
Buddhism and Women
This chapter describes Buddhism and Women located on page 123 of volume Volume 1 in the book Cultural Horizons of India compiled by Musashi Tachikawa. This book comprises 50 years of research material of Lokesh Chandra and represents a thorough study of the ancient culture of India, dealing with Tantra, Buddhism, Art, Archaeology, Language and Literature in 7 volumes.
The first volume presents the evolution of ideas that emerge from a broad spectrum of quests in languages such as Sanskrit, Greek and Latin (etc.) and further presents an introduction to Indonesian history, art and linguistics.
This book covers the research articles and general surveys of Professor Lokesh Chandra. For example, this chapter describes Buddhism and Women. Everything together represents a huge collection of writings related to languages such as Sanskrit, Iranian, Sino-Japanese, Tibetan, Thai, Greek, Latin, Celtic, and Slavic..
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Bihar and Eastern Uttar Pradesh (early history) [by Prakash Narayan]
Horner, Women under Primitive Buddhism, p. 2. (* 2) Cullavaagga, p. 374. (* 3) I. B. Horner, Women under Primitive Buddhism, p. 295ff. (* 4) Cullavaagga, p. 411. (* 5) A. N. , II, p. 87. (* 6) Cullavagga, pp. 374-77. (* 7) This is particularly offensive in a society where age and seniority is normally respected irrespective of sex. (* 8) Cullavagga, p. 378. Incidentally the argument indicates how far Buddhism was willing to go in its view of change....
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Triveni Journal
Swamiji contrasts the Western woman s attitude to marriage and family in all these respects. The Western woman is “individualistic”, whereas the attitude of an Indian woman is “socialistic”. 10 The woman as wife is a companion helping the man in his pursuit of his Dharma. Thus Vivekananda exalts the institution of marriage though occasionally, being a monk and an ascetic, he does not seem to accord a very high place to that institution in life....
Read full contents: Tradition and Modernity in Swami Vivekananda’s Attitude to Women
Temples in and around Madurantakam [by B. Mekala]
A lithic record from Madurnatakam mentioned the gift of gold for a lamp by royal woman A lithic record mentioned three woman donors namely Gunavan Adigal gifted two perpetual lamps, another woman Viramadeviyar donated 25 Kalanju of gold and yet another woman was the daughter of Devanar of Orriyur gifted 20 Kalanju of gold. A damaged inscription mentioned only the name of a royal women Vallavangkothaiyar....
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[Cultural Horizons of India: index]
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[Volume 1 (preface)]
[Volume 2 (summary)]
[Volume 3 (summary)]
[Volume 4 (summary)]
[Volume 5 (summary)]
[Volume 6 (summary)]
[Volume 7 (summary)]